Re: Change permissions of files to -xw +r for all other users

[Stephen Samuel <samnospam@bcgreen.com>]

Rhys Hardwick wrote:

>Hey there,
>
>I know this may be a case of RTM, but I am getting confused on it.
>
>I want to change the permissions of all the files in my home folder to read 
>only for all users but myself, but to leave directories executable so that 
>they can be opened.  I have had difficulty doing this for only other users, 
>and have ended up -xw for myself as well, even tyring many variations of the 
>-o tag.  Any help would be fantastic.
>  
>
What it sounds like you want to do is set permissions to read-only for 
others and group.

The proper command would be:

find ~ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod og=r 

The '0' causes each filename to be terminated with a null  ('\0') rather 
than a
newline (which is actually legal in a filename)
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